Posts Tagged ‘shares’

Since Gordon Brown’s tax raid on pensions in his first budget as Chancellor, the proportion of employees who are members of risk-free final salary schemes has plunged from more than one in three to ...
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While the FTSE 100 index yields 3.9pc, a ‘magnificent seven’ of its blue chip shares are delivering an average income stream of more than 5.6pc net of basic rate tax. But high yields can indicate ...
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Homeowners have good financial reasons to look back on 60 years of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s reign as happy and glorious ones. As the nation prepares to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubile...
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Savers approaching retirement should heed a veiled warning in a speech by the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, pensions experts and economists claim. Charlie Bean defended quantitative easing (...
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Tesco Bank, part of Britain’s biggest supermarket, is launching a new 5pc fixed rate bond offering investors the chance to pick up an inflation-beating income along with their bread and baked...
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Sell in May and go away; don’t come back until St Leger Day. Just a silly rhyme or ancient City wisdom? Should you dump shares today and avoid reinvesting until the famous horse race in the second w...
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Three years after millions of savers fell victim to a slow-motion bank robbery, alarm bells are ringing at Westminster. MPs on the Treasury select committee have noticed that freezing interest rat...
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Inflation figures today will be cold comfort for savers who would have been wiser to follow the actions of the Bank of England rather than its words since the credit crisis began. While Mervyn King, G...
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Stock market shock: billions wiped on shares – now there’s a headline you don’t often see. Even after the FTSE 100 index surged by more than 100 points or nearly 1.9pc yesterday to 5875, mos...
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Apple’s confirmation that it will pay dividends from the end of this year lifted its share price by another 2.3pc to $599 yesterday – enough to buy one of its new iPads, at least in America, a...
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